Sangria provides an extravagant night on the town
Great food and tasty shisha, good music and hot people watching, but stop at the bank firstCAIRO: When visiting Sangria, make sure to have a well-filled wallet or generous friend,…
IFC supports Egypt in implementing pilot public-private partnerships in infrastructure
CAIRO: The International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Finance to provide assistance in implementing…
Egypt delaying listing of drug firm CID – report
CAIRO: Egypt s government will delay listing a part of state-owned pharmaceutical firm Chemical Industries Development to conduct a review of the planned public offering, Egypt s official MENA agency…
Raya Holding plans to acquire 75 percent of C3
CAIRO: Raya Holding Company is taking measures to acquire 75 percent of the Call Center Company, C3, in line with its plans to expand contact center services to clients in…
Egypt-Gaza border offers breath of air for suffocated Palestinians
Agence France-PresseRAFAH, Gaza Strip: Moin Shamallah grins as he sits up in the front of a Palestinian taxi at the Rafah border wearing a new suit held together with four…
Oral history emerging as alternative to traditional historiography
CAIRO: Historians and researchers must rely on government documents, elite culture and oppressors perspectives for the bulk of historical knowledge. Interest in subaltern studies, in the voices and cultures of…
The Mall
It was during a one-day conference on over-seas reporting, held at the University of California's Graduate School of Journalism, that I learned of yet another element of what purports to…
From Princeton, a new power paradigm
A new and influential report just released by the Woodrow Wilson School, titled "Forging a World of Liberty Under Law, U.S. National Security in the 21st Century, underlines the one…
An evening to remember the greats
Musical band and poetry recitation group join to celebrate Haddad, Jahin and DarwishCAIRO: Last Friday the British Council in Agouza hosted an inspiring Ramadan evening. A few hundred people were…
